Definition of suspect Suspect

/sʌspɛˈkt/ - [suspekt] - sus•pect

We found 27 definitions of suspect from 6 different sources.

What does suspect mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: suspects
suspect - someone who is under suspicion
		mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism
		murder suspect someone suspected of committing murder
		rape suspect someone who is suspected of committing rape
suspect - a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
		defendant
		complainant, plaintiff a person who brings an action in a court of law
		litigant, litigator (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation; "plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants"
		jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
		accused a defendant in a criminal proceeding
Verb suspects, suspecting, suspected
suspect - hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
		imagine, opine, guess, suppose, reckon, think form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"
suspect - imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
		surmise
		hazard, venture, guess, pretend proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; "We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer"
suspect - regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
		distrust, mistrust
		rely, swear, trust, bank promise solemnly; take an oath
		disbelieve, discredit reject as false; refuse to accept
		doubt consider unlikely or have doubts about; "I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage"

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Wiktionary

suspect (Noun)
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
suspect (Verb)
To imagine or suppose something to be true without evidence.
suspect (Verb)
To distrust or have doubts about something or someone.
suspect (Verb)
To believe someone to be guilty.
suspect (Verb)
To have suspicion.
suspect (Adjective)
To be viewed with suspicion.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

suspect (a.)
Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
suspect (a.)
Suspected; distrusted.
suspect (a.)
Suspicion.
suspect (a.)
One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
suspect (v. t.)
To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
suspect (v. t.)
To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
suspect (v. t.)
To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
suspect (v. t.)
To look up to; to respect.
suspect (v. i.)
To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

suspect
To imagine or suppose (something) to be true without evidence.
suspect
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
suspect
Raising suspicion.
suspect
To imagine something evil, wrong or undesirable based on insufficient evidence; to believe to be guilty.
suspect
To imagine that something is possible or likely.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

suspect
sus-pekt′, v.t. to mistrust: to imagine to be guilty: to doubt: to have a slight opinion that something exists, but without sufficient evidence, to conjecture.—v.i. to imagine guilt, to be suspicious.—n. a person suspected.—adv. Suspec′tedly.—n. Suspec′tedness.—adj. Suspect′less, not suspected. [L. suspicĕre, suspectum, to look at secretly—sub, up, specĕre, to look at.]